Middlebury's Bread Loaf Mountain campus, nestled amid the Green Mountain National Forest in Ripton, Vermont, is home to two venerable programs: Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and the Bread Loaf School of English. Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference is the oldest writers' conference in America, convening yearly in mid-August. Bread Loaf School of English has offered a rich array of graduate courses in literature, the teaching of writing, creative writing, and theater arts to students from across...
Topics: Bread Loaf School of English, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Middlebury College, American...
This is a collection of campus newspapers and alumni newsletters, among other College publications, from the 19th Century to the present. Downloadable items include complete back issues of The Undergraduate, The Middlebury Campus, Middlebury College magazine, and more, currently held and maintained by Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives, Middlebury, Vt.
A collection of historic photos and other graphic materials, digitized from original materials held by Middlebury Special Collections, Middlebury, Vt.
A collection of archival texts - including letters, manuscripts, journals, and printed ephemera from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries - held and digitized by Middlebury College Special Collections.
Topics: Middlebury College, Manuscripts
Among the many historical items in Middlebury College's Vermont Collection are over 1,100 photographic postcards from depicting landscapes, structures, disasters, and daily life in early 20th Century Vermont. Many of Vermont's towns and villages are represented in the collection, and we are proud to share digitized versions of these important historic images via the Internet Archive. For more information about any of the items in the collection, please contact Middlebury College Special...
Middlebury's varied athletic programs, including intercollegiate, club sports, intramurals, physical education courses, and recreation have created opportunities for all students regardless of their background or level of expertise for over two centuries. Our growing archive documents baseball, football, skiing, track and field, Quadball (formerly Quidditch), archery, hiking, sailing, logrolling, and more.
Topics: College athletics, Athletes, NESCAC, NCAA, Middlebury College
This collection contains copies of the Middlebury Kaleidoscope – Middlebury College’s yearbook – digitized by Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives, Middlebury, Vt.
One of the nation's great archival collections of New England folksong, folklore, and balladry, the Flanders Ballad Collection was the lifework of Helen Hartness Flanders (1890-1972), of Springfield, Vermont. Over the course of thirty years, and with the assistance of Marguerite Olney, Flanders gathered and preserved more than 4,800 field recordings of New England folksongs and ballads as sung by native Vermonters and other New Englanders. In May, 1941, she donated the collection to...
Topics: folksong, folklore, balladry, Middlebury College, New England, folksongs
Contains items related to Vermont’s railroads and their history from Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives' collections of rare books, historical photos, and ephemera.
Topics: Railroads, Vermont, Middlebury College
The Julian W. Abernethy Library of American Literature was bequeathed to Middlebury College in 1923, upon the death of Julian W. Abernethy, Class of 1876, College Trustee from 1901-1923. A distinguished teacher and scholar of American and British literature, Abernethy was an avid bibliophile and during his lifetime amassed an extraordinary collection of first editions, collected works, critical editions, and original manuscripts by the most notable men and women in American letters from the...
Topics: Transcendentalism, American writers, Manuscripts, Literature, Middlebury College
Vermont Life magazine was a quarterly magazine, published by the State of Vermont, covering Vermont’s "people, places and culture." The state-owned magazine was founded in 1946 and ceased publication in the summer of 2018. Vermont Life was digitized from originals held by the State of Vermont, Middlebury College Special Collections, and the Dorothy Alling Memorial Library with funding support from the following: Davis Family Foundation, Middlebury College Friends of the Library,...
Topics: Vermont Life, magazine
Historic photographs from the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History, originally presented in 'A Walking History of Middlebury' by Glenn M. Andres. This digital image collection is hosted by Middlebury College Special Collections, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Middlebury, Vt.,, Photographs
The Middlebury College Digital Lecture Archive includes video of lectures and events from Middlebury College. Lectures and addresses included in this collection have been delivered by speakers from many institutions on a variety of critical topics, and are made available whenever possible via the Internet Archive and other online platforms.
Topics: Lectures, Commencement speeches, Middlebury College
This is a collection of publications, photos, video, and other archival content documenting the long and rich history of the Middlebury Language Schools, which have taken place during 6 to 8 week long summer sessions each year since 1915. Items in this collection are digitized versions of objects currently held by Middlebury College Special Collections & Archives, Middlebury, Vt.
These 19th and Early 20th Century maps of Vermont and the surrounding region have been scanned from original documents in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College. For more information about any of the items in the collection, please contact Middlebury College Special Collections and Archives at specialcollections@middlebury.edu .
The Hemingway Family Archive at Middlebury College joins Hemingway archives in more than 75 private and institutional collections, the most distinguished of which include those at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum, and the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Compiled by writer Leicester Hemingway (1915-1982), the younger brother of Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), our physical collection contains more than 1,600...
A complete archive of Middlebury College course catalogs starting in 1804, from Middlebury College Special Collections, Middlebury, Vt.
Topic: course catalogs
As part of Middlebury College Special Collections' commitment to preserving and providing access to a complex record of student life, we are sharing a selection of 19th-21st Century primary documents related to student activism at Middlebury. We hope that the items in this collection contribute to a more complete history of the College, its student body, the broader communities in which they reside, and the rich - and sometimes controversial - history of political and cultural...
Topic: student activism
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Source: College Archives
A collection of documents detailing the planning, foundation, and historical transformations of Middlebury Chapel. Middlebury removed the name “Mead” from its chapel in 2021 because of Governor John A. Mead’s role in advancing eugenics policy in the early 20th century. Mead graduated from Middlebury in 1864. The building is now referred to as Middlebury Chapel.
Topics: Middlebury College, Middlebury Chapel, Mead Chapel, Historical buildings, Campus buildings, Churches
The Robinson Family letters from Rokeby Museum represent several generations of Quaker families in Vermont, especially the Robinsons - a family of farmers, abolitionists, artists, and authors whose home in Ferrisburgh is now a National Historic Landmark and one of the best-documented Underground Railroad sites in the country. The letters concern personal, farming, and business matters relating to the various families, and major political and social issues of their times, including abolitionism,...
Topics: Rokeby Museum, Robinson Family papers, Abolitionism, United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865,...
93 p. ; 18 cm.
Topic: Poetry
Source: RBMS
Dorm room in Battell belonging to Anonymous student, Class of 2018.
Topics: Middlebury College, Battell Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Source: S6 photo file
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Source: College Archives
Dorm room in Hadley Hall belonging to Christina Puchinelli, Class of 2019.
Topics: Middlebury College, Hadley Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Source: S6 photo file
Dorm room in Hepburn Hall belonging to Kyle Schlanger, Class of 2018.
Topics: Middlebury College, Hepburn Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Source: S6 photo file
Dorm room in Hadley Hall belonging to Anonymous student, Class of 2019.
Topics: Middlebury College, Hadley Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Source: S6 photo file
The photographs in this collection are of the women at the Los Angeles Gay Community Service Center's (GCSC) "Lesbian House" in Los Angeles between 1972 and 1973. These photographs were taken by Bee Ottinger for her thesis project at the California Institute of the Arts, and were also used by Ottinger in a San Francisco exhibit in 1973. Includes negatives for photographs taken using 35, 46, and 60 mm film.
Topics: Middlebury College, Lesbian House, Los Angeles Gay Community Service Center, Alumni and alumnae,...
Source: C71
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Source: College Archives
Program for the inauguration of the Statue of Liberty on October 28, 1886. Includes the first appearance of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "The Bartholdi Statue, " p. 61-62. This is a scanned version of the original document in the Abernethy Pamphlets Collection at Middlebury College.
Topics: Whittier, John Greenleaf, 1807-1892, Poem, Abernethy Pamphlets Collection
Source: Abernethy Pamphlets Collection
Photograph of Battell Hall at Middlebury College, taken in or around 1950..
Topics: Middlebury College, College buildings, Buildings, structures, etc., Battell Hall
Source: A12 photo file
View of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church on College Street, ca. 1900.
Topics: Middlebury (Vt.)--Buildings, structures, etc., Church buildings--Vermont--Middlebury, Catholic...
Source: Hagar's Postcards, Stewart-Swift Research at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
Topics: College newspapers, Middlebury College, Middlebury College Newsletter, 1968
Source: College Archives
Painter Hall from the east
Topics: College buildings, Painter Hall, College campus
Source: A12 photo file
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[1], 171 p. ; 21 cm. Includes bibliographical references. "A Bengal officer" = Charles Stuart (though formerly sometimes identified as John Scott, also known as Scott-Waring: see Oxford DNB). Memoir of the expediency of an ecclesiastical establishment for British India. This is a scanned version of the original document in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection at Middlebury College.
Topics: Hinduism, India, Colonialism, Missionaries, Buchanan, Claudius, 1766-1815
Source: RBMS
Topics: College newspapers, Middlebury College, Middlebury College Newsletter, 1969
Source: College Archives
Middlebury College New Faces for the Class of 1983. This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Middlebury College, College freshmen, First-year students, Photographs, New Faces
Source: A10 New Faces
Portrait of Middlebury alum Ezra J. Warner, class of 1861.
Topics: Middlebury College, Middlebury alumni, Portraits, College archives, Alumni and alumnae
Source: A9 photo file
Robert Frost and Anne Sexton at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, 1959. Individuals in the photograph include, from left to right, Elizabeth Baker, Irene Orgel, Robert Frost, Anne Sexton, and George Lea.
Topics: Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, American poets, Poets, Photographs, Middlebury College, Ripton...
Source: F8 photo file
Dorm room in Pearsons belonging to Amy Tat, Class of 2018.
Topics: Middlebury College, Pearsons Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Source: S6 photo file
From a letter dated Spring 1990, the African American Alliance (a student club) proposed "the establishment of a Bi-Cultural Living and Learning Center". Established officially in 1991, the Bi-Cultural Center was first known as the African American and Hispanic American Bi-Cultural Center, and would later be called the African-American and Latino Bi-Cultural Center. It was located in Fletcher House, South Street. The Bi-Cultural Ceneter was renamed the Pan-African Latin-American...
Topics: Middlebury College, Bicultural Center, Photographs, African American Alliance, Pan-African...
Source: A14.1
Photograph of Johnson Memorial Building at Middlebury College, taken in or around 1968..
Topics: Middlebury College, College buildings, Buildings, structures, etc., Johnson Memorial Building
Source: A12 photo file
Pearsons Hall from the east
Topics: College buildings, Pearsons Hall, College campus
Source: A12 photo file
Students sit on a hay wagon, presumably as part of a Kappa Delta Rho function.
Topics: Student activities, Greek letter societies, Kappa Delta Rho
Source: S2 photo file
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Source: College Archives
Rutland Railroad steam locomotive 232 is belching smoke and steam in front of the railroad station at St. Alban's, Vermont, as two men stand on the adjacent sidewalk.
Topics: Railroad stations, Saint Albans, Postcards
Source: Vermont Postcards collection
Student activities file photo
Topics: Middlebury College, Jubilee, Student life, Student activities, College students
Source: S6 photo file
Portrait of Reverend John White Chickering, Middlebury College Alumnus, Class of 1826; (right-facing portrait) Title supplied by cataloger
Topics: Middlebury College, Alumni and alumnae, Phi Beta Kappa
Source: A9 photo file
From a letter dated Spring 1990, the African American Alliance (a student club) proposed "the establishment of a Bi-Cultural Living and Learning Center". Established officially in 1991, the Bi-Cultural Center was first known as the African American and Hispanic American Bi-Cultural Center, and would later be called the African-American and Latino Bi-Cultural Center. It was located in Fletcher House, South Street. The Bi-Cultural Ceneter was renamed the Pan-African Latin-American...
Topics: Middlebury College, Bicultural Center, Photographs, African American Alliance, Pan-African...
Source: A14.1
Images scanned from 35mm film negatives
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Events, Photographs, College faculty, Alumni and...
Source: C139 PF
Middlebury College New Faces for the Class of 1979. This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Middlebury College, College freshmen, First-year students, Photographs, New Faces
Source: A10 New Faces
Topics: College newspapers, Middlebury College, Middlebury College Newsletter, 1977
Source: College Archives
Twitchell House (1873) on College Street, when it was the home of Uriah D. Twitchell, ca. 1880s. Later acquired by Middlebury College and known as Battell Cottage and Adirondack House. Individuals pictured include Uriah Twitchell on the left and Mary Bolton (Peck) on the far right.
Topics: Middlebury (Vt.)--Buildings, structures, etc., College buildings--Vermont, Middlebury College....
Source: Oversized Collection, Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
Middlebury College New Faces for the Class of 1996. This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Middlebury College, College freshmen, First-year students, Photographs, New Faces
Source: A10 New Faces
Images scanned from print contact sheets. Negative size is 2x2 (120 roll film)
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Events, Photographs, College faculty, Alumni and...
Source: A10 PF
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Source: College Archives
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Source: College Archives
Dorm room in Gifford Hall belonging to Timo van der Geese, Class of 2018.
Topics: Middlebury College, Gifford Hall, Student life, Campus buildings, College students, Dormitories
Source: S6 photo file
Photograph of Johnson Memorial Building at Middlebury College, taken in or around 1968..
Topics: Middlebury College, College buildings, Buildings, structures, etc., Johnson Memorial Building
Source: A12 photo file
Images scanned from 35mm negatives
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Events, Photographs, College faculty, Alumni and...
Source: C189 PF
Images scanned from print contact sheets. Negative size is 2x2 (120 roll film)
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Events, Photographs, College faculty, Alumni and...
Source: A10 PF
Images scanned from print contact sheets. Negative size is 2x2 (120 roll film)
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Events, Photographs, College faculty, Alumni and...
Source: A10 PF
Photograph of a horse-drawn plow on the Middlebury College campus from the scrapbook of Evelyn Virginia Phillips, Class of 1936. The back of the photo reads "Horses pl[owed] the walks before graders got to the roads."
Topics: Middlebury College, Student lift, College students, Scrapbooks, Photographs, Alumni and alumnae,...
Source: A9 Scrapbooks
Middlebury College New Faces for the Class of 2002. This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Middlebury College, College freshmen, First-year students, Photographs, New Faces
Source: A10 New Faces
Photograph of the Middlebury College Class of 1996.
Topics: Photographs, Middlebury College, Class photos, Middlebury College alumni
Source: A9 photo file
From a letter dated Spring 1990, the African American Alliance (a student club) proposed "the establishment of a Bi-Cultural Living and Learning Center". Established officially in 1991, the Bi-Cultural Center was first known as the African American and Hispanic American Bi-Cultural Center, and would later be called the African-American and Latino Bi-Cultural Center. It was located in Fletcher House, South Street. The Bi-Cultural Ceneter was renamed the Pan-African Latin-American...
Topics: Middlebury College, Bicultural Center, Photographs, African American Alliance, Pan-African...
Source: A14.1
Middlebury College New Faces for the Class of 1978. This is a scanned version of the original image in Special Collections and Archives at Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt.
Topics: Middlebury College, College freshmen, First-year students, Photographs, New Faces
Source: A10 New Faces
Images scanned from 35mm film negatives, prints, slides, and contact sheets.
Topics: Middlebury College, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Events, Photographs, College faculty, Alumni and...
Source: A10 PF
View of Painter Hall (1816), ca. 1890s.
Topics: Middlebury (Vt.)--Buildings, structures, etc., College buildings--Vermont, Middlebury (Vt.),...
Source: General Collection, Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Source: College Archives
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Topics: 28cm., Middlebury College, Middlebury College Magazine, College newspapers
Source: College Archives
Italian School Professors & Staff
Topics: Middlebury College, Photographs, Middlebury Language Schools, Summer language schools, Italian
Source: A10 photo file (MCNB)
Photograph taken by the Middlebury College Office of Communications and Marketing at the 2008 commencement ceremony.
Topics: Middlebury College, Events, Commencement, Alumni and alumnae, Photographs, Graduation
Source: A1
View of the rear of Forest Hall, looking southeast, ca. 1940.
Topics: Middlebury (Vt.)--Buildings, structures, etc., College buildings--Vermont, Middlebury College,...
Source: Gipson Collection, Stewart-Swift Research Center at the Henry Sheldon Museum of Vermont History
Faculty.
Topics: Middlebury College, Photographs, College archives, Faculty
Source: A10 photo file (MCNB)
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